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Healthy Male & Female Participants Needed!
Pfizer Clinical Research Unit (PCRU) needs healthy participants
for a scientific study involving an experimental medicine and two
marketed medicines used to prevent organ transplant rejection and
treat rheumatoid arthritis.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the rate of absorption, safety
and tolerability of the experimental medicine when taken together
with either one of the marketed medicines.
Pre-requisites:
• Healthy males and *females aged 21 - 55 years old Mr Lee’s kitchen before (left) and after the free home makeover.
(*Females must be of non-child bearing potential; either at least 2
years postmenopausal or had a hysterectomy)
• No illnesses and not on medication HeLP FoR THe needy
Free home makeover
• No drug allergies
• Non-smokers, ex-smokers or smokers (smoke less that 5 sticks/day)
• Have a body mass index (BMI) of 17.5 - 30.5kg/m2 and weighs more
than 60kg [BMI = Wt (kg)/(Ht x Ht)(m)]
If you are eligible, you will be invited for a discussion
and a free medical check up. You will be paid for your
transportation and time. This study is estimated to be
conducted over 3 weeks.
PART-TIME crane operator Lee Kim Seng
and his family of seven are now living in
it is our wish that this
For details or to check your eligibility, please contact:
Volunteer Recruitment Department at 6496-9888.
a newly-renovated three-room flat in Kim meaningful initiative will
9.00am to 5.00pm (Mon to Fri) Keat Avenue without having paid a single
cent for the makeover.
provide the impetus for
We are located at 585 North Bridge Road, Level 10,
Raffles Hospital. Thanks to a community project by the other organisations to
www.PCRU.Pfizer.com Renovation and Decoration Advisory Coun-
cil (Radac), the Lees were one of two needy
contribute, in their own
families selected to receive a free home ways, to society.
makeover in March.
Renovation and decoration advisory council
Mr Lee and his wife, who is a part-
time cashier, have not been able to afford
renovation works, as their youngest son, a ways, to society,” said Radac, a non-profit
seven-year-old, suffers a kidney condition. body that promotes high standards of con-
All his five children are still in school. duct in the renovation industry and edu-
The other family selected lives in a cates consumers on renovation issues.
three-room flat in Yishun. Radac will launch a video of the home
“It is our wish that this meaningful makeovers during its three-day roadshow
initiative will provide the impetus for other at the Toa Payoh HDB Hub Mall, which starts
organisations to contribute, in their own tomorrow. eSTHeR FunG
US home sales, consumer spending rise
CONSUMER spending in the United States 5.18 million, capping the first back-to-back
probably rose last month for the first time increase since 2006, the survey showed.
in three months and home sales increased “There’s more optimism as we get fur-
as Americans became more confident the ther away from last year’s financial-market
recession would end this year, according to chaos,” said Mr Chris Rupkey, chief financial
economists in a Bloomberg survey. economist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
Purchases advanced 0.3 per cent, ac- in New York.
cording to the median of 58 estimates in “Spending on the part of consumers
the poll, ahead of US Commerce Department seems to be picking up after a soft patch. It
figures due on Friday. Combined sales of looks like housing has bottomed.”
new and existing homes likely improved to BLooMBeRG